Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar, any songs in here from Enya, orMarcus Neiman. I do own Conste-Chocolate, though. Lol

Hello. Wow, this has been some day! My grandma got a cat, and I'm avoiding my homework and project by typing this. I just couldn't wait for this chapter, so you get it this weekend! And, when you see the "..." then a line, and the "..." again, it's just changing POV, not the setting. And when you see a (1) next to something, the meaning or whatever is at the bottom of the story. Also, on to my party once more! UNPAUSE!

"Ok, wow, by one vote, it's the movie then shopping." O-dragon said, counting the hands. "Ok then, let's get on with the movie! It's going to have all of our characters in it, all on Zuko's ship, freaking him out. It should be great, but you'll have to fill in the spaces, because I have to write this chapter, which you all are about to read. While the "characters" in the party story watch the movie, you all will be reading this chapter! Enjoy!"

Chapter 14-Agni Kai

"I can't believe you helped the Avatar! Do you deny it?"

"No. And oh yea? Believe it! Cause it's true!"

When we had gotten back to the ship, the crewmembers got back to work and prepared for the ship to take off again. Zuko barely was able to keep his temper until then, so once we got back onto deck, he exploded, Iroh standing in the background praying there wouldn't be any fire shed.

"Then you're guilty!" he yelled. He was the one yelling, and I was the one screaming. I bet there was a couple in Omashu that heard us screaming.

"Fine then, I'm guilty!" I said a little calmer. He exploded at this.

"Just tell me which way they went!"

"Why? You had your men with you when you saw them take off, so why not ask them? Besides, why should I have been paying attention?" I screamed my head off at him.

"You were the one in the clearing that's why!"

"Well, I was preparing for your arrival."

"ARGHHH! You're impossible!"

"Thank you. I'll take that as a compliment." I said lowering my voice tonormal and folding my arms across my chest.

"Uh, Prince Zuko, Miss Kabby-" Uncle Iroh stammered in.

"NOT NOW UNCLE IROH!" We both screamed at him. He backed away carefully.

"Do you even realize why I need to capture him? I need him for my honor to be restored! That's all I want!" Zuko yelled at me, literally smoking now. We were now sailing freely in the ocean.

"Yes! I realize that, but do you not realize that you can have honor without someone just giving it to you?" I screamed at him. The calmness from before had disappeared.He looked taken aback for a second, then his face contorted with rage again, but I spoke before he had another chance to. "And do you know what I want? I want the chance to have a normal life! All my life it's been painful, and nobody can understand that!"

"I understand that you blew my chances of trying to capture him YET AGAIN!"

"SHUT YOUR AIR HOLE! SOMETIMES IT'S NOT ALL ABOUT YOU!" I yelled, and then gave him a sign from my American Sign Language course (1.). I walked away after I saw him acknowledge the sign, and before he could say anything else.

The crew 'ohhh!'-ed after me and to Prince Zuko. "SHUT UP AND BACK TO YOUR POSITIONS!" he yelled at them and they scurried back to work.

Sometime around midday I heard a knocking at my door. "GO AWAY!" I yelled, but it was Iroh on the other side, and he sounded urgent.

"Miss Kabby! Zhao's ship has pulled alongside of us. You need to make your room like it hasn't been lived in." I opened the door.

"Do you have any servants clothes, or some old ones?" I asked him. He nodded, and I replied, "Give them to me. I have an idea. Just go along with it, okay?" he nodded and went to get the clothes. As soon as I finished with my room, he arrived again, and I got the clothes from him. "I'll meet you on deck shortly." He nodded again and left.

This is my chance to get Zhao back for all the things he's done. I thought while I put the clothes on my body and messed my hair up a little. The clothes where about a size too big, but at least they worked. Then, I went up to the deck.

When I got there, Zhao and Zuko were exchanging words, but I kept my distance until Zhao finally looked up and noticed me.

"Who's that?" he asked, with all of his crewmembers looking at me, including Zuko's. Zuko looked like his world just ended as Zhao passed him and walked casually over to me. I got a little nervous, but I remembered to keep still.

"Mya, sir." I replied casually, while curtseying to him. I was smiling to myself inside.

"Mya? Is she a servant?" He asked, turning to Iroh.

"Uhh…yes, in fact she is. She's been sailing with us for about a month now." Iroh said while I nodded my approval to his words. Thankfully Zhao didn't see this, but then he turned back to me and I stopped.

"How old are you?"

"Sixteen."

He studied me for a while, and then turned to Iroh. "Well, can she cook?"

Iroh nodded. "Would you like to try some right now?" he got better and better at this. Iroh led Zhao down to the galley, but left Zuko and me standing on deck facing one another.

"Would you like some tea, sir?" I smiled sweetly. He, on the other hand, looked like he'd just been bit in the butt.He walked pass me, jamming his shoulder into mine without speaking. I laughed inside of myself, and then went to the kitchens taking a detour to my room first.

"Where is it?" I whispered, searching through my bp for something, and then I found it and headed back to the kitchens, taking the back way.

When I got there, I was the only one there, so I began making tea, part of my plan. When I poured the tea into the cups, I added a pinch of what I had gotten from my bp to one, and stirred it until it disappeared. Then, I got some cookies from the pantry, heated them up a little to make it look and taste like they came from the oven, loaded a tray up with the "meal" and headed out.

When I got to the galley, the General and the Admiral were talking about war tactics with the Prince scowling to himself, sitting at the corner of the table. I set the plate down on the table and began handing tea to everyone. I gave Zhao the specially made one, then unloaded the cookies, and slinked away to the back of the room again to await an order. Zuko saw me and gave me a questioning look. I winked at him, and he went back to the war topic.

"This is excellent tea!" Iroh exclaimed.

Zhao added his little bit. "Yes…what is your secret?"

I gave him a questioning look, panicking inside. "Secret?"

"Yes, secret." He looked at me with daggers to see if I was lying when I said the next part. I wasn't ready for this question.

"My secret…" I searched my brain and landed upon the truth. "Sugar and cocoa beans." I smiled sweetly.

"Aren't cocoa beans very rare?" Zhao was acting like he was on to something.

"Yes, they are, but before I started working here, I wasknew exactly where they could grow, and so I was able to get a heavy supply." Zhao nodded, content, but then his little monkey mind landed on something.

"Weren't you a slave before working on this ship though?"

I shook my head no. Iroh and Zuko looked fearful on how I would escape this one. But what they didn't know was that I was excellent at lying. "No, sir. I was free, but I needed a place to stay, and so I met General Iroh at a market, and he offered me a place to stay on his ship as long as I was a servant for the men."

I finished my story, and Zhao nodded and accepted this story, amazingly enough. I sighed a silent sigh of relief. Iroh and Zuko seemed to, too. Then, Zhao went back to the conversation that theyhad beendoing before I came in.

Not only was I great at lying, but also, I was also great at improv, which saved me just then. When they were done, I gathered the plates and dishes on my tray, and took them to the kitchen to clean them. I was in the middle of that when Zuko came in about 20 minutes later.

"What did you give Zhao?" he stormed at me.

"Wow, next to Zhao's ship, this is a dingy!" I said, making him even angrier, so I went ahead and answered his question. "Is he gone?" I asked, and he replied that yes, he was. "It's Conste-Chocolate." He looked bewildered. So, I dried my hands off and went to get the rest of the bar off the counter that I had gotten from my bp. I showed it to him. "It makes you constipated." I stated as he looked at it.

Horror struck his face. "WHAT?" he yelled.

"What? I had to get him back somehow."

"But he's never done anything to you! You know he WILL hunt you down? Also, you LIED to him! WHY?" He kept yelling in my ear at me.

"He doesn't have to know that I gave it to him, though. And besides, I know he hasn't done anything to me." I got it back to him and set it on the counter. "Also, I didn't lie. I bended the truth."

"Then why'd you do it?" he whispered, his voice becoming softer, completely ignoring my last comment.

"For all the people he's been evil to, including you." I went back over to the sink and began doing the dishes again. I know he stared after me for sometime before leaving.

As I was washing the dishes, I remembered how I managed to come across Conste-Chocolate. Pavan had tricked me and scared me once for Halloween when I was 12, and so I wanted to get him back somehow. The storekeeper, at the joke shop I went to, guaranteed the chocolate would work with just about ¼ of a bar. And it would begin working about 2 hours after taken, but since it was now so old, I only put in a pinch into Zhao's tea. It should begin taking affect around dinner, hopefully after.

With the memory of Pavan, I began crying…

…Little did she know that Zuko was watching her through the crack in the doorway.

The next morning, I woke up and went to the galley for breakfast, my first one since I got back on the ship, and it wasn't really good. Zuko kept throwing me dirty glances at me, probably because I didn't tell him which way the Avatar went. Plus, he wouldn't even talk to me. And Iroh was caught in the middle yet again. I must say that that was the quietest breakfast I've had since I shoved Pavan's head into the toilet after he threw a bucket of cold water on me when I was in the shower in 8th. It was funny if you weren't in the household at the time.

Finally I had had enough. "What do you want from me?" Zuko looked up. "Look, just because I let the Avatar escape, that doesn't mean you can get all Ignore-Kabira-like! Hello! Incase you haven't noticed, capturing the Avatar is your job, not mine!"

The next line spoken was the first time he'd talked to me since yesterday when I told him what I did to Zhao. I hope that man is suffering right now… I thought, getting off track, but I was quickly blown back when Zuko finally spoke. "If it wasn't for you, I could have had my honor re-claimed within a week right now!"

"You know what? Let's just end this littleplayground battle right now." We were sitting across the table from one another, Iroh looking back and forth at us like a tennis match. "An Agni Kai, tonight. If I win, you will let this subject pass, and not bring it up again. If you win, I'll be your slave fora month."

"Two months."

"Deal." We shook on it, and we finished eating, but Iroh, after we made the pact, left the table with a small groan. I smiled to myself, knowing what it was about. Zuko was smiling too, but not for the same reason. He would now have been through at least 3 Agni Kai's in his life, and this would be my first, so he'd have an advantage. Finally, I couldn't take the silence anymore, and left Zuko still sittingat the table.

That night, at sunset, when the Sun was beginning to make all the pinks and oranges in the sky, the crew assembled on deck. Zuko at one end, meditating, with all of his guards behind him, including his uncle, and meat the other end, with no one rooting for me. But I didn't let that bother me. I was strong on the inside. I didn't need anyone pushing me to do more than I could.

Instead of meditating, I was repeating to myself, "Find my balance, balance my center." I whispered this over and over while Pax Deorum by Enya played in my head. My teacher from myTea KwonDo lessons used to tell me, or my class and I, this when we were about to enter a battle, and now I was using it again. When I was finally ready, I stood up, the Fire Nation cloth falling quietly to the ground. I looked at Zuko, making my stance, and he looked like he had just stood up as well, at the same time I did.

I was wearing my "Fire burns in my heart…" t-shirt and the shorts that went with it, because when Iroh told me what I'd be wearing, I said, "No possible way am I wearing that." So, I was wearing my clothes, but Zuko was without his shirt again. I sighed on the inside, falling in love with him, but that feelingquickly left as Zuko created and aimed a fireball at me. I concentrated on it, and grabbed it when it was next to me and aimed it back at him with a force. It knocked him back a little, but he quickly regained himself.

Soon, we were battling it out, about half an hour into the hour, him using his basics, me using onlymy common sense. I think I was winning too. He shot a jet of fire at me, which I knew I couldn't grab at, so I crossed my arms at my chest, and when the smoke cleared, I was still standing there, unscathed. He had a look of bewilderment on his face for a moment, but it disappeared as I shot flame at him. But it wasn't you normal every-day Fire Bending. I used the trick Mystique used in the X: Men, movie # 1, when she was battling it out with Wolverine, but with flame flowing from my foot. It shot out of my foot when it touched the deck towards the Fire Nation Prince, and I also had my hands shooting a string of flame out of them as well. I had brought them forward and jabbed them outward when I hit the deck. Zuko was rammed backwards, but was soonup and at me again.

After that attack, though, I felt something buzzing in my mind, and putting my hand up to my head as Zuko attacked. I wasn't able to stop it. I was pushed back really far, and when I looked up, I saw my father on the sidelines, whispering, "You can't win." and shaking his head as he watched me. I looked back at Zuko as he shot another flame at me. This time I was able to dodge it easily, and run at him. Then when I was close enough, I shot more fire at him from my fist, sending him back even more.

The heat began to mess with me. My mind buzzed even more, until I was grasping my head harder than ever. I felt rage building up inside of me from my father. "You can't win." Heyelled at me, nobody moving like they couldn't even hear him.This couldn't happen! Ican't lose control. I thought.

I looked up at Zuko who had just let lose a flame shot. I tried to grab it, but it didn't work. I slid backwards again, this time clutching my arms to my body. They burned so bad. I looked down at them, to see that they were burned and raw. Blood trickled slowly down them.I looked up,fear showing in my eyes. But it went away as the rage inside built up and up and with the raw area on my arms, it was released.

I collapsed on the ground. I tried to regain control, but it was useless. I was locked out of my own mind. Then, through my pain, I noticed that the flames coming from Zuko had stopped…

…"Zuko! Stop!" Iroh cried, running forward as Kabira collapsed on the ground. Zuko looked at the figure of the girl who he'd just been battling for the last 45 minutes. She was on the ground, holding her head. Also, flames began erupting around her. Zuko stumbled back in shock as the flames got bigger and bigger, soon swirling around the girl.

"What's happening?" Zuko yelled, horrified. The guards seemed scared too. Some took a step or two back, not knowing what to do.

"I think she's losing control." Iroh said. He wanted to help, but now the flames were constant, and licking atthe crewmembers,likethe fire around Kabira was warning the crewmembers of the ship to get back, so they couldn't get anywhere near the girl. They just had to wait for her to lose all of her energy.

Kabby was on fire. The swirling flames had a diameter of about 10 feet around her. She began crying, as she tried to blink the memories away that were pushing at her. The car ride during the night, her father standing there, silhouetted against the porch light, Pavan dunking her, her dream of Pavan and Cadee, then, her father's face, unsmiling, staring at her through the darkness and into her soul where he was burned there in her memory. But the blinking wasn't working. Every time she blinked, a new memory would appear.

She felt as if she should just be lashing out at everyone in her path, and without knowing it, she was. She knew that there was intense fire and heat all around her, she just didn't know why, or how to stop it. Finally, she couldn't take it anymore and just blacked out.

A few hours later, the doctor came out of the infirmary and asked General Iroh to walk with him.

"She's woken up, and I talked with her for awhile." The doctor began.

"Well?" Iroh asked calmly but with a sense ofcuriosity in his voice.

"She says that she saw her father on the sidelines and that rage filled her body and mind."

"Did she tell you why?"

"No, I'm afraid she didn't. But she also said that when she was burned, the rage that was inside of her had an escape route, she thinks,and so all of the rage inside of hercame out as the fire. But I highly doubt that was all of it, or even a quarter of it. She says thatthe whole experiencewas so intense that she was locked out of her own mind." He stopped walking and turned to face the old general. Iroh stopped as well to face the doctor."I believe, sir, that we have more than just another bender on our ship. I believe that she is more powerful than anyone can even comprehend, including her." He stated this gravely, staring down at Iroh. Iroh stared back, understanding, but with fear in his eyes.

PARTY

"Now tell me that wasn't fun!" I said to the group as we made our way through the mall, on the way to some stores. The first one we hit was Marcus Neiman.

Everyone tried on something, and it was really funny when Kabby came out wearing old lady's clothing for a laugh. I ended up getting some plaid stuff, with a few solid tops, and everyone else got about 3 or 4 items as well. Kabby actually bought the grandma's clothes, and said, "What? They're for my grandmother!"

I leaned over to her and whispered, "Kabby you don't have a grandmother!"

"Oh, well, I'll be an old lady for Halloween!" I sighed and rolled my eyes as everyone else laughed.

Next, we went to a fan shop where they sold all kinds of cartoon stuff, including AVATAR PLUSHIES! (2.)

We all bought a Zuko plushy, and of course an Aang plushy. Some people got Katara and Sokka plushies as well, but the store had run out of Zuko and Aang ones by the time we left. Some even got an Iroh and Zhao plushy. Of course, we only got the Admiral Monkey Face to show him some "respect".

We then went to some other stores as well, some people getting some more outfits, and others just trying them on for the heck of it. But, finally, and sadly, it was time to go home. We said our good-byes in the parking lot, and we all left.

Sorry if the party wasn't all that good. Thanks for coming though. I did try to think of something for the party, I just never got much inspiration like I did for Kabby's party. Also, sorry if Zhao was a bit OOC. I've never written him in a situation like this before, so it was a little hard.

Anyway, review and you will be loved. I hope you liked it! Oh, and the ASL sign Kabby did at the beginning of the story is below.

(1.)- The sign here was "ash hole", and yes, you read it right. My mom doesn't like me using language like, well, you know what I'm talking about.

(2.)- I really don't know if there are any Avatar plushies or not, I just want them to come out with some. So if anyone knows if there are any, please let me know!

Don't forget, NEW AVATAR EPISODE THIS FRIDAY!

Also, the story won't last much longer, probably not more than 20 chapters, so be aware of my next fic, One Day! Also, if you're waiting for me to update, check out puppykid91's story, Avatar: Journey met my fate. That's an awesome story!

POLL!

Who all thought that Zhao got what he deserved in this chapter and that it was a good trick for Kabby to play on him?